Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A new railway route across the Andes from Chile to Bolivia scales to a hight of between 14,000 and 15,000 feet and to insure the comfort of the travelers in this rarefied atmosphere the trains have been provided with oxygen chamrbers. The mocking bird is a native of America and the West Indies, and is remarkable for its vocal powers and for its faculty for imitating Dther birds as well as different sounds which it hears. Its voice is full and musical, and capable of a modulation, from the clear tone of the woodthrush to the scream of the eagle.

In the Edinburgh (Scotland) zoo there is a crocodile that is content with a rat or a piece of horseflesh every fortnight. There is an anaconda which arrived more than a year ago and has since steadily refused to take food of any kind, an example of ’abstention surpassed, however, by an Indian python which during its thirteen months’ stay has not voluntarily taken food. The Coldstream guards is a regiment of footguards in the ’British army, forming a part of the royal household brigade. It is one of the oldest regiments of the British service, dating from